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Defense lawyers argued that Pring-Wilson acted in self-defense after being attacked by Colono, while the prosecution, led by Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Lynch, claimed that Pring-Wilson was the aggressor in the fight and deserved a first-degree murder conviction...
Defense attorney Ann Kaufman and Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Lynch each tried to paint a different agent as the aggressor in the fight, and both of their arguments hinged on the dispute over whether the defendant or the victim opened the door of the car in which Colono was sitting outside the pizza parlor, instigating the fight...
...defense is desperate for you to see what they want you to see,” she said. “What matters is that when he opened the door, he became the aggressor...In his anger at these people...Alexander Pring-Wilson intentionally used that knife...
...defendant had no right as the initial aggressor...to use anything but non-deadly force,” she said. “[But Pring-Wilson used] force necessary not only to penetrate a jacket...but to penetrate cartilage...
Though the prosecution portrayed Pring-Wilson as the aggressor, the defense criticized Colono’s own character...